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Title: Barcode automation for mobile payments Post by: jago25_98 on January 16, 2011, 06:39:07 PM Problem: You wish to pay a friend with Bitcoin. You have saved your password for MyBitcoin.com except for the last 3 letters into your mobile phone memory to save time, but the Bitcoin address is still very long to type in. How can this be better? Barcodes. There are 2 sections to this problem: 1) Generate a barcode for a bitcoin address. 2) Read a barcode using a mobile phone camera. There are apps that can read barcodes (http://scan.jsharkey.org/) but what I'm looking for is one that runs in the background and types in the barcode number into the webbrowser. I haven't found that yet. Here's a starter on how you might make that: You don't need an Android phone to make an Android app. See this article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Run-Android-Applications-on-Ubuntu-115152.shtml You can run an emulator on your linux or Windows box straight away, including using a PC connected webcam (see http://scan.jsharkey.org/ ) Somebodies already on the barcode scan API: http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ It should be a simple feat to use that for copy the results from zxing into the copy/paste buffer for easy copying into the web browser. 2) Making your own Bitcoin address barcode. Here's the list of barcode types useable with zxing: * UPC-A and UPC-E * EAN-8 and EAN-13 * Code 39 * Code 93 * Code 128 * QR Code * ITF * Codabar * RSS-14 (all variants) * Data Matrix * PDF 417 ('alpha' quality) * Aztec ('alpha' quality) I'm now looking up how to make these.... Title: Re: Barcode automation for mobile payments Post by: tcatm on January 16, 2011, 06:44:27 PM Have you seen my js-remote ( http://tcatm.github.com/bitcoin-js-remote/ )? It supports QR codes.
Title: Re: Barcode automation for mobile payments Post by: jago25_98 on January 16, 2011, 07:17:20 PM http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/android-barcode-scanner/
^ This cuts down the barcode scanning to Python. The only thing missing is the copy to copy buffer command at the end. Just reading that link tcatm.... oh my goodness! No I didn't know about that, that's fantastic, great work, couple of coins on the way to that Looks like no.2 is solved then. Title: Re: Barcode automation for mobile payments Post by: davux on January 16, 2011, 08:24:44 PM You might also be interested in python-bitcoin (http://www.gitorious.org/python-bitcoin/)'s qrCode() method on Address objects.
Example code: Code: (Python) from bitcoin.address import Address Please read the method's documentation to see all the possibilities of the Address object, and of the qrCode() method in particular. Title: Re: Barcode automation for mobile payments Post by: cindy313 on April 02, 2014, 02:45:26 AM Problem: You wish to pay a friend with Bitcoin. You have saved your password for MyBitcoin.com except for the last 3 letters into your mobile phone memory to save time, but the Bitcoin address is still very long to type in. How can this be better? Barcodes. There are 2 sections to this problem: 1) Generate a barcode (http://www.keepautomation.com/guide/aspnet_barcode_generator.html) for a bitcoin address. 2) Read a barcode (http://www.keepautomation.com/products/net_barcode_reader/barcode_codabar.html) using a mobile phone camera. There are apps that can read barcodes (http://scan.jsharkey.org/) but what I'm looking for is one that runs in the background and types in the barcode number into the webbrowser. I haven't found that yet. Here's a starter on how you might make that: You don't need an Android phone to make an Android app. See this article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Run-Android-Applications-on-Ubuntu-115152.shtml You can run an emulator on your linux or Windows box straight away, including using a PC connected webcam (see http://scan.jsharkey.org/ ) Somebodies already on the barcode scan API: http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ It should be a simple feat to use that for copy the results from zxing into the copy/paste buffer for easy copying into the web browser. 2) Making your own Bitcoin address barcode. Here's the list of barcode types useable with zxing: * UPC-A and UPC-E * EAN-8 and EAN-13 * Code 39 * Code 93 * Code 128 * QR Code * ITF * Codabar * RSS-14 (all variants) * Data Matrix * PDF 417 ('alpha' quality) * Aztec ('alpha' quality) I'm now looking up how to make these.... Title: Re: Barcode automation for mobile payments Post by: enriquez on April 02, 2014, 06:27:51 AM I made a QR Code scanner for iOS that does what you describe (along with an HTML5 wallet). It works by using custom url schemes.
Demo: http://youtu.be/D0NmeVEz70c The above video shows tapping the Scan Code button to launch the scanner app with a callback url. After it scans, it launches the callback url with the QR Code data that the web app can use to populate text boxes. I posted more details about the wallet and scanner here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=551986.msg6008008#msg6008008 |